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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Db2 vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

1983

host version

2015

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

12.1, October 2016

1.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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